for beginners: lip pursing vs tongue blocking

Beginning blues harmonica players are often confused by an issue that preoccupies more experienced players: the relative advantages and disadvantages of the two main ways of producing notes, lip pursing and tongue blocking. This video quickly describes and demonstrates both techniques, focusing on different--and similar--sounds that they produce on the lower three holes. With Adam Gussow of Modern Blues Harmonica. Gussow is currently appearing in the Netflix documentary “Satan & Adam,“ which describes the rise, fall, and late-life resurrection of his Harlem-based blues duo by the same name.